Benesch Law issued the following announcement on Dec. 21.
Benesch is pleased to welcome Katie Burnett and Louis Constantinou as associates in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group in Chicago.
Katie represents businesses from a diverse range of industries, including health care, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and commercial real estate. She often manages and coordinates multi-jurisdiction litigation across both state and federal courts. Additionally, Katie frequently represents clients in complex business disputes in connection with contract disputes, business torts, employment claims, and other commercial and financial matters. She has extensive experience representing businesses in trade secret misappropriation actions.
Katie also represents clients in actions involving a variety of industries and technologies, including medical devices, consumer products, and financial services. Her IP litigation experience includes a variety of Lanham Act litigation, trade secret misappropriation cases, complex patent disputes, and the management of associated state law claims.
She also has experience defending companies and individuals in all types of government investigations and regulatory enforcement actions, including by U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state agencies. She has also represented Chapter 11 debtors, creditors, and other parties in complex bankruptcy litigation. Katie earned her J.D. cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and her B.A. cum laude from Villanova University.
Louie focuses his practice on IP litigation and is experienced with litigating patent and trade secrets disputes in district courts throughout the United States, as well as drafting patent applications and conducting clearance searches for new technologies. He has experience drafting memoranda on a variety of patent and trademark litigation issues and assisting with the prosecution of filed patent applications.
Louie earned his J.D. with distinction from The University of Iowa College of Law, his B.A. in biochemistry from The University of Iowa, and his B.A. in economics from Loyola University Chicago.
Katie and Louie are two of over 50 new attorneys to join Benesch so far in 2021. Since making its debut on the AmLaw 200 list in 2016, Benesch has advanced 27 places and is currently ranked at number 168.
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